Business
Should You Rehire an Employee Who Left Your Company? (via Harvard Business Review)
A study showed there’s no significant change in (1) performance of the re-hire, (2) improvement in their performance over time compared to external or internal hires, and (3) likelihood of them leaving again.
Career
This LinkedIn Learning course covers best practices for leveraging your LinkedIn profile and how it differs from a traditional resume.
How to Find Meaning When Your Job Feels Meaningless (via Harvard Business Review)
- Offset negativity
- Cultivate humility
- Reflect on your values
- Offer to help
- Craft your job toward purpose
- Seek out colleagues
- Consider a career change
Leadership
The Career Story Interview (via Software Lead Weekly)
If you interview people, this is worth a read. It covers the structured interview, and gives tips on how to work through each step of that. I liked the tips about (1) writing out examples of good/bad answers to your questions, (2) taking notes during the interview (i.e., listening instead of pre-judging).
Software development
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms (Part 9)
Our book club discussed the trie (pronounced “tree”) data structure.
Technology
When Machine Learning Goes Off the Rails (via Harvard Business Review)
Because of probability, some decisions will be wrong. Concept drift and covariate shift make things inherently unpredictable. The complexity of the systems ML is embedded in causes additional problems. Some solutions are: (1) treat ML as if it’s human, (2) think like a regulator and certify first, (3) monitor continuously, (4) ask the right questions around accuracy, competitiveness, biases, environment,